Tag: NGINX market penetration

The Apache HTTP server and NGINX are the two most popular open source web servers powering the Internet today. When Igor Sysoev began working on NGINX over 10 years ago, no one expected that the project he created for the purpose of accelerating a large Apache‑based service would grow to have the influence it has now. Apache…

There’s an old adage about data points that says, “One’s a dot. Two’s a line. Three’s a trend.” So what should we make of five? This week, W3Techs, which tracks usage data on web technologies, recognized NGINX as the winner in the web server category of their “Web technologies of the year 2014” awards – for the…

I took the above title from a recent article in Forbes and it’s true. Most people haven’t heard of NGINX, but in fact they most likely use it every day, if not every hour, they’re on the Internet. NGINX underpins the everyday life of nearly everyone connected to the web, whether they're reserving a room…

For many retailers, Thanksgiving is a time of trepidation and anticipation. While much of the rest of the country relaxes with family, both brick‑and‑mortar and online retailers brace themselves for the onslaught of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The challenges confronting both types of retailers are very similar. Facing massive visitor traffic to their stores, they…

NGINX continues to consolidate its position as the leading web platform, used by over 40% of the busiest sites in the world. The Netcraft Survey, August 2014 The results of Netcraft’s August 2014 survey are in. The NGINX web server's share of the million busiest websites in the survey is nearly 20% (195,974 sites) and is steadily growing,…

Update – We have new and updated information about the advantages of software load balancers over hardware ADCs. Please see our updated blog post on switching to software load balancing, download our new ebook, and check out our test results comparing NGINX Plus vs. F5’s BIG‑IP and NGINX Plus vs. Citrix Netscaler.
For many data‑center administrators, deploying software to manage traffic goes firmly against everything they've learned. Having learned their trade in the data center, they measure everything by its hardware specifications – cost per port, mean time between failures, on‑site replacement – and anything that can't be measured in those terms just does not compute!
For a long time, load balancing was no different. It was the preserve of the data‑center or network administrator, who was responsible for the successful delivery of IP packets to the correct server, informed by health checks and response times. Packets per second, throughput, and SYN protection were the metrics that load balancers were measured on.

[blockquote author='W3Techs Fact of the Day, 26 May 2014']Over 130 million websites use NGINX at the front of their infrastructure, and of the 10,000 busiest websites in the world, more websites use NGINX than any other web server. The last two months of data from Netcraft and W3Techs show some interesting changes. With some numbers up and…

Based on figures from the February 2014 Netcraft survey, almost 140 million of the websites they surveyed run NGINX – sites like Box and Dropbox, Instragram, Netflix, Pinterest, Tumblr, and WordPress. That's an increase of over 10% in one month. Netcraft report on web server market share, February 2014 W3Techs surveys the top million…

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